Dunlap, Rob & Lumby, Peter – Tozzer2 #1

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Tozzer2 #1

Just to make one thing perfectly clear: I’m basing my opinion on one issue of a mini series, and apparently there was already a mini series that came before this, so maybe I’m just a bit lost or behind everybody else. Still, this didn’t do much for me at all. What’s this comic about? Tozzer and his crew having adventures, I suppose. It’s so packed with parody that it was hard for me to make out the story. You have Michael Jackson and his ape traveling around and looking for Tozzer, Samuel Jackson (the Pulp Fiction character) and his Yoda puppet, Eminem, George Lucas, and more Matrix parodies than you can shake a stick at, if you have a stick handy. Oh, and judging by the cover, the next issue is about Michael Moore being very fat and trying to eat people. I’ll wait an issue or two until I totally make up my mind (the second issue is sitting here and I’ll get to it soon), but this looks to me like a bunch of tired, tired parodies being done one more time. There’s plenty good to be said for the art, and there were more than a few points that there was a gag or something that made me chuckle, but it’s more than a bit of a mess when you put it all together. Here’s a website, I’m hoping that this is just a bad first impression and it’ll get better later…